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Purdue University · Women's & Gender Studies

23.5% of Purdue University's Women's & Gender Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Women's & Gender Studies departments, it is 34.5%.

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Purdue University: 23.5% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

13%Far left92–100
13%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
8 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

WGSS 32600 · Sex, Race, Class And Leadership100

Women's & Gender Studies

00. This course offers students opportunities to build practical skills in dismantling institutional, systemic, and structural manifestations of mutually reinforcing oppressions such as racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism and homophobia,…

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WGSS 28900 · Introduction To Women's, Gender, Sexuality, And Feminist Studies80

Women's & Gender Studies

00. This interdisciplinary course surveys cornerstone concepts of Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies and feminist, critical race, queer, class, transgender, and crip theories, especially intersectionality and transnationalism. Students will…

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WGSS 32000 · By And About Women64

Women's & Gender Studies

00. (ENGL 32000) Course employs feminist, interdisciplinary perspectives to examine representations of gender and sexuality in drama, fiction, poetry, and prose, with emphasis on texts by women writers. A central concern is how power is…

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Furthest right

None. Purdue University Women's & Gender Studies has 8 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

  • Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Purdue University · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share23.5—34—
Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share34.533.0 – 36.03,812—
Formula
100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval
Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot
gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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